Spalacotherium evansae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpalacotheriumPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Mammaliaformes
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Mammaliaformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 6.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 137.05 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Spalacotherium evansae on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
5 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
- Lulworth Formation · Purbeck Group3
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The named rock units Spalacotherium evansae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Spalacotherium evansae and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Spalacotherium evansae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
132 taxa- Goniopholis3 sites
- Paramacellodus3 sites
- Squamata3 sites
- Theriosuchus3 sites
- Triconodon3 sites
- Albanerpetontidae2 sites
- Apricosiren ensomi2 sites
- Avialae2 sites
- Batrachosauroididae2 sites
- Becklesius2 sites
- Caturidae2 sites
- Celtedens megacephalus2 sites
- Dorsetisaurus2 sites
- Dryolestidae2 sites
- Heterodontosauridae2 sites
- Hybodus2 sites
- Nuthetes2 sites
- Nuthetes destructor2 sites
- Osteichthyes2 sites
- Parasaurillus pseudobtusus2 sites
- Parvodus celsucuspus2 sites
- Peramus2 sites
- Pholidosaurus2 sites
- Pterodactyloidea2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Spalacotherium evansae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- New symmetrodonts (Mammalia, Theria) from the Purbeck Limestone Group, Lower Cretaceous, southern England3
- Vertebrate paleobiodiversity of the Early Cretaceous (Berriasian) Angeac-Charente Lagerstätte (southwestern France): implications for continental faunal turnover at the J/K boundary1
- Microvertebrate biodiversity from Cherves-de-Cognac (Lower Cretaceous, Berriasian: Charente, France)1
Each of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Spalacotherium evansae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Spalacotherium evansae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSpalacotherium through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ensom and Sigogneau-Russell 2000